All of these costumes are cheap, pretty throw-it-togetherable, and will make other people around you hungry. 1. Food Mascots From left: Sun Maid Raisin girl, Morton Salt Girl, Jolly Green Giant, and the Chiquita Banana lady. [Photograph: Tressa Eaton] Sun Maid Raisin Girl: A bonnet, white blouse, head scarf, and basket full of grapes. (Bonus points for sunshine rays emanating from your body) Morton Salt Girl: Wear a yellow dress (preferably with a huge bow) and hold an umbrella. (Fun fact: that would be our own Serious Green columnist Tressa Eaton in the photo!) Jolly Green Giant: Green shirt, green leaf-bearing toga, and green headband. Act jolly. Chiquita Banana Lady: A woven hat full of fruits piled on top, big...
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Next time you eat a Rice Krispie Treat, make sure a fluffy cat isn't inside. Cute Overload has quite the list of pet costumes, some of which are food-related....
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Our intern Kerry Saretsky and I searched high and low for the best non-edible but edible-looking costumes for men, women, and children this season. Because the only thing better than eating food is looking like it! Men Pez Available on brandsonsale.com for $39.99. T-Bone: Available on amazon.com for $49.99. Taco: Available on fantasytoyland.com for $34.95. Women Blueberry Muffin: Available on animalmascots.com for $659.00. (What the..?) Peeps: Available on buycostomes.com for $64.99. Deviled Eggs: Available on mooncostumes.com for $38.95....
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"Sonya is having a little bit of a hard time being a Caesar salad. She really wanted to be a pie." As if little babies couldn't get any cuter and pudgier, that factor gets multiplied by infinity when they wiggle in lobster, lemon meringue pie, and roast turkey costumes. Isabele Ortley is responsible for the crafty Halloween costumes, and showed them off on an episode of the Martha Stewart Show in 2006. At the end, Ortley demonstrates step-by-step how to turn your munchkin into a succulent roast turkey, complete with drumsticks! The best is the little one passed out in the apple pie costume. She seems pretty over her lattice-topped belly. Video, after the jump....
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This Washington, D.C.-based Craigslist ad for a homemade felt bacon costume, priced at a reasonable $10, somehow went ignored last weekend. The creator and seller says it's still available, and she's even extending the former "must pick-up today" (June 21) deadline to the first week of July. Why didn't anybody in the nation's capital, home of pork, want a lifesize bacon suit, so fuzzy and fastened together with velcro? The head hole ideally works for a five-foot-six bod, but one size can fit most. Even you, the grass-fed vegetarian. (It's just felt, not real pig meat.) Related Baconwrapt Scarf Bacon Brassiere (NSFW) Eat Your Salad From a Bacon Bowl...
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